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Old Aug 9, 2022 | 1:02 pm
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Originally Posted by Super Mario
I haven't had this happen, so excuse my ignorance. Are there truly no flights for days? Or are we limiting ourselves based on cost, airline, etc.
Presumably a large enough IRROPS event to create a few days in a row of no seat availability and no reasonably-priced commercial airline flights you can book.

Not necessarily all air traffic grounded (although that would be a subset of these events).

One would assume with an unlimited amount of money you could always find a plane and a pilot. Well, almost always...

I knew people who were stuck in Denver for Christmas of '06. It snowed so much that there was literally no mode of transportation to go east. It would have taken 4 days to get a flight out of Denver. Fortunately, Interstate 70 opened after about 2 days and they were able to drive out.
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